🌟 Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

🌟 Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

Aurora Cedars School – Wolverhampton

• Location: Wolverhampton
• Contract Type: Permanent, Part-Time (3 days/week)
• Hours: 24 hours per week, Term Time Only
• Salary: £15.53–£18.62 per hour (£32,302.40–£38,729.60 pro rata)

🏫 About Aurora Cedars School

Aurora Cedars School offers a tailored education for up to 80 pupils aged 5–19 with ASC and SEMH needs. Many of our students benefit from specialist support with speech, language, and communication—and that’s where you come in.

👩‍⚕️ The Role

We’re seeking a passionate and qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated therapy team. You’ll play a key role in creating a communication-friendly environment and helping us realise our vision:  To build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people to thrive and find their place in the world.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering bespoke assessments and intervention plans in collaboration with teaching staff
• Managing a small caseload of pupils with speech and language needs
• Supporting staff through training, consultation, and reflective practice
• Working closely with our experienced Clinical Lead and SENCo

🌱 What We’re Looking For

This role is ideal for someone with a nurturing approach, strong decision-making skills, and the ability to manage their own workload. If you’re enthusiastic about making a real difference and committed to excellence in care, we’d love to hear from you.

✅Essential Criteria: 

• You will be a registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
• Hold a professional Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent. 
• Completed SALT NPQ Status

💡 About Aurora

• The Aurora Group is a forward-thinking provider of education and care for children, young people, and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. This is an exciting time to join us—Aurora Cedars is a growing school where your expertise can truly shape its future.

What’s on offer? 

•  Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support.  We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further.  Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are.  You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more.  You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations.  We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills.  You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.  If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.